Honorific inscription of Thessalonike for T. Aelius Geminius Macedo, logistes of Apollonia.  Grayish marble altar with acroteria.
[ ] Makedonia (Mygdonia) — Thessalonike — early 3rd c. AD — IG X,2 1 181
1      ἡ πόλις
           {²regulae
2 ∙ Τ(ίτον) ∙ Αἴλιον Γεμείνιον Μακεδόνα,
τὸν ἄρξαντα τοῦ Ἀττικοῦ Πανελληνίου
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λ̣α̣μ̣προτάτης Θεσσα̣λ̣ον̣ε̣ικ̣έων πόλεως,
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Ὀλυ̣μ̣π̣ι̣ὰ̣ς ∙ ἡ θυγάτηρ τὸν πατέρα.
                εὐτυχῶς.
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